Its flavour of the month on Jamma+ right now :rolleyez: And a lot of the vid guys are moving into pin buying.
It's joining games like
BOP and co in the Pinball Arcade curse.
because people can't get play on a ton of games locally, they're just leaping on games that theyve enjoyed/experienced on Farsights overated, bug filled mess. The second half of the curse is having a promo video on YouTube.
BOP is the worst case scenario, the desire for this game has skyrocketed since last year.
Pinsides top 100 has miraculously had all the TPA tables shoot up the rankings, despite that it was obviously designed for real machine ratings.
Pinball Arcades hand in raising game prices can't be overstated enough.
Its like whenever the UKPP happens and you can guarantee that a bunch of "Want a MM, price no object" posts will pop up on the Yahoo group, except instead of having just played the real thing, they have had the experience without having to leave the sofa.
Dont get me wrong, of course its great that pinball is getting the attention, but its legit gotten to the point that I groan when I see a game I'm after get announced for TPA, as a crazy price spike is pretty much guaranteed.
i don't think a lot of people realise how much work is involved in owning pinball machines, and cost in keeping them maintained and at their best. A lot of these eager new owners, cash in hand and with no time to be patient, are in for a real system shock.
its not impossible to read this post as semi selfish, like I'm just complaining that games are getting too pricey for me to buy wahwah
but my main concern is people bandwagoning on, paying over the odds on eBay, getting bored or burnt by a bad seller, then leaving the fad, but not until they try to make profit on their already badly priced machine.
#firstworldproblems #moreboringpricetheory